ATI Radeon X1600 PCI-E breaks xserver
 

hello i have ubuntu 6.10 edgy and when i install my video card with ati drivers or fglrx it breaks the xserver, like it will be working and then i go to reboot and xserver doesnt load and when i go into recovery mode and do sudo startx it says no screens found and i have to edit the xorg.conf file so that it uses vesa or mesa drivers to load, does anyone have any idea why this might be happening and how to fix it? my card shows up in lspci btw, so thanks in advance for any help/advice

Could you explain how you installed that driver? I have just updated to Feisty but I really don't remember having any issues whatsoever with the Radeon 1600 on Edgy.

i just followed all the guides that i found links too on the ubuntu forums and followed them to the letter and everything installs with no problems or atleast none i can see and it works and i reboot and the xserver cant boot up anymore

So did you do it more or less like this :
download ATI installer
launch a terminal
run ./ATI-installer.sh from the terminal
select Ubuntu 6.10 from the available systems
let the system compile the driver
then install it from the terminal using dpkg

Correct?

btw, if you actually did all that, you may be using a bad driver. I've heard the 8.37 is pretty worthless - you may have more luck using an earlier one.

more like this kinda http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guidebut i did do it the way ati says to do it

I hope you didn't really follow that tutorial too literally. Just look at the first line:

And it's generally better not do it like ATI says; their how-tos are just as poor as their drivers - unfortunately.

This looks more like it; make sure to select the manual approach:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

i have tryed both on the guide you posted and neither of them worked i got the same exact thing and i dont know why also the one i posted i was using as an example as i didnt have a link to the edgy one

OK but did you remove the fglrx driver you had already installed first? And did you install the kernel headers?

im not using fglrx im using vesa right now and also what kernal headers, this is the first time i have heard anything about that

You may be using vesa right now but if you installed the fglrx driver before, succesfully or not, it will have left some traces.

Kernel-headers are a very compressed version of the kernel (putting it very simply); as the fglrx driver needs to be built against the kernel, they are absolutely indispensible.

Go to System > Admin > Synaptic and check whether they are installed or not; and while you're there, look for any items that reference the ati-fglrx driver - they should be removed before you give it another try.

there is alot of kernal headers and none of them are installed

Which kernel are you running? Type this into a terminal:

uname -r

and then

uname -m

also which of these am i supposed to remove?
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2886/screenshotoq3.png

Remove fglrx-kernel-source; synaptic will remove the other relevant components automatically. Select "Mark for complete removal".

Check whether you have linux-headers-2.6.17-11, linux-headers-generic and linux-headers-2.6.17-11-generic.

heres what linux headers are installed
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4...enshot1fn2.png

also the package manager only removed the fglrx-kernal source and nothing else